Opposed . We are now in executive session. Session . Madam secretary. All right. I move to revine in open session. Second. All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed . Next item madam secretary. Pledge of allegiance. I would like to disclose that in close session on february 14, 2017 the Port Commission meeting the commission unanimously approved the appointment of cathy pouchony as the Deputy Director and finance and administration and i would like to disclose anything ulc discussed. Thank you. Second. Second. All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed . Next item madam secretary. Pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag to the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Please be advice the cell phones and sound producing Electronic Devices are prohibited at the meeting. Please be advised that the chair can remove anyone for the ringing of and use of cell phones, pagers and similar sound producing Electronic Devices. Please be advised that a member of the public has up to three minutes to make Public Comments on each agenda item unless the commissioner adopts a shorter time. Item 8 items not listed on the agenda. Is there any Public Comments on items not listed on the agenda . I dont have any cards. Seeing none Public Comment is closed. Item 9 madam secretary. Item 9 a executive directors report. I am forbes with the port. I would like to give everyone an update on pier tweafnltd we started a rfp process and as you recall the developer was jamestown who we selected through a competitive solicitation process was becoming nervous because of some Community Opposition while they enjoyed Community Support also and requested that the port bring a term sheet to the board of supervisors and you forwardd that along and approved it and i am happy to report that the board unanimously passed the term sheet on first read today. Before that passed the term sheet went to the finance committee on march 2 and aaron peskin, supervisor peskin who is the District Supervisor in the area recommended three amendments which i think the Port Commission will be very happy with. First he specified that hes requesting when the lease return to the board of supervisors that a minimum of half of the goods sold in the 20,000 square feet of retail space is reserved for sf makers. The developer said they can meet that requirement and we will talk about that. I know the commission asked for detail on the leasing program. He asked that were clear that the lease applies only to the bulkhead building as advertised and not to any other portion of the property and not the shed of the property and finally to report to him and the full board of supervisors in a report what were learning through the waterfront Land Use Plan regarding active recreation and the recommendation and how were pursuing the recommendations and they have a specific time to come back in february and i am happy to report that the vision for use of the property, the very well run solicitation process and process has been confirmed nam by the board. I would like to announce this saturday there is San Francisco Public Works Team event from 9 00 a. M. To 12 00 p. M. And warm water cove. Its a family fun event and plantings of trees a lot along cargo way. Recology will be there handing out 5 pounds of compost for residents gardens and please bring your buckets. If you want to be involved in the planting and closed please wear closed shoes and goats and Face Painting and you can ride in a bucket truck and please come and have some fun and that concludes my report. Is there Public Comment on nine, the executive directors report. Seeing none. Public comment is now closed. Madam secretary next item. 9b Port Commissioners report. I would like to ask that we adjourn in honor of kathryn dodd who retired from the city yesterday and has done Amazing Things on behalf of the employees and retirees of the city during her tenure. Most recently as head of the Health Services commission where we saw rates in health care went up and we brought rates down and hold steady and save members funding. She served in the Mayors Office and leader pelosi as chief of staff and aid to supervisor shell and he nancy walker and adviser to many of us and she just retired from city service yesterday. Doesnt mean shes retiring from of abouting us with her knowledge and wisdom and staying on as the chair of the National Committee to preserve medicare. In a volunteer capacity but would love to adjourn in her honor today. I would like to thank the staff. I had the opportunity to attend the contract opportunity open house, and it was such a great event. There was such a wonderful turn out. I think almost 200 people were there in addition to the city and port staff, and everybody was just so happy and so excited that we did it and it was so successful so i want to congratulate the staff and director forbes for the foresight to do it and because it was soful successful making it a event. Anything else. Ing none madam secretary. Item 11. 10a. Is there any Public Comment on 10a. David pilpow. I havent been here for a while and i agree with the commissioner and appreciate you recognizing kathryn dodd and survive and doing her Health Circumstances which is courageous. On item 10 a i would like to support this. It seems like a minor and routine item but that will actually make significant long overdue repairs at pier 9496 and theyre minor league flooding event when is it rains i have seen out going out to the recology facility and this dovetails with the item of 11c and i want to support the work here. I was going to ask why the resolution didnt include a whereas of the ceqa but this isnt the time action for those purposes and just the bid and back here with approval and thats the approval for the ceqa item. Thank you very much. Thanks david. Is there any more comment on 10a . Seeing none it is close. All in favor of 1713 . All in favor say aye. Madam secretary next item. 11a informational presentation by the city of San Francisco office of economic and Workforce Development on the south beach, rincon, mission bay mission bay, central waterfront, bayview Hunters Point, candlestick interagency coordination to guide community and citywide investments. I am here today to introduce ken rich the director for the office of economic and Workforce Development and make martin the project director for owed to give you an update on the south beach, rincon, mission bay coordination and framework. You may recall back in may of last year the office of economic and Workforce Development presented the south beach, rincon, mission bay strategy and theyre here today to provide an update some of the Community Outreach since last may and next steps and with that i will turn it over to ken rich. Thanks david. Good afternoon commissioners. So we were here last may to discuss the effort that owed is leading which were calling a construction framework along the southern bay front and a couple projects and here to give you update between then and now and negotiate Public Benefits from these projects of Affordable Housing, transportation and a host of other topic areas that will go over in a moment. 2017 is an important here in this process. We expect to be in front of you later in the year for approval of two Major Projects, the pier 70 project which you will hear more about after me and the mission rock project. In addition theres another important project, the indian basin project that we expect to get through approvals this year. I wanted to make the point that these large negotiated projects, both the several in this part of town as well as others around the city are going to be providing the bulk of new Housing Units that we will be entitling in the next years in the city and generally these large negotiated projects are able to provide a higher percentage of Affordable Housing than smaller projects and we place a lot of importance getting them through. We are working with staff to keep these on schedule and get through the process in the shortest time we can without skimping on outreach and vetting and we will go through the a presentation and move through it quickly as possible in the interest of time. Just a little bit on housing. As you know in january 14 the mayor pledged to construct many new homes in the city by 2020 and at least 33 of low moderate income families and the majority within financial reach of middle income san franciscans and we have a funded pipeline of projects that will enable another 4,000 to 5,000 affordable homes. We are track in general to make the 30,000 goal by the projected goal of 2020. These projects will make a strong contribution to housing for working class middle income san franciscans with a least a thousand work force units and 5,000 low and moderate income units. This is the slide you saw before. I wont dwell on it but the water front is composed of distinct zones and the first three of the zones are not places where we expect to see a lot of change. Theyre either in federal hands or rec park hands or possibly a lot of course is in the ports hands and well see modest incremental change until you get down to the yellow zone where we do see the opportunity and sort of consensus that some change is warranted as some but not all but some of the heavy industrial lands go into a new use. This is a zoom in of that part of the city and this slide is here to make the point were not operating on a blank slai. We have 36,000 People Living near by and 23,000 people already working and it is our charge to make sure that the planning we do in the projects are adding value for the neighborhoods and residents. These are all the different projects that are involved here. A couple of them or at least one of them and the Warriors Arena and Hunters Point and candlestick are approved and several others and five Major Projects going through for approvals in the next years including as i mentioned two that are under port jurisdiction. I want to call your attention to the gray box in the middle and that district is intended to remain as an active industry and maritime activity center. Were engaged in active discussions with your staff on how to make the most out of the ability to house those uses there over time. And so the negotiation framework that we will talk about will generally the five projects they will list off that have yet to go through for approvals and seeking to transform those into assets of the community and a variety of Public Benefits. The idea we dont want to do one off negotiations but we want to understand what were asking for from all of the projects in advance of going through and doing these negotiations. Just a little bit on schedule as i said this is going to be an important year. Weve got the mission rock project and the pier 70 project coming through for approvals by the end of the year, and also we hope to get the indian basin project by the end of this california year. A little bit further out in time because theyre starting a Community Process are the power plants and Hunters Point and portroro plants and quickly and you will get a presentation on these in a minute and the pier 70 project which you will hear about, the mission rock project and another port project thousand units with affordablity and million and a half feet of space and open space. The indian basin project privately owned site and of neighborhood scaled retail and in cooperation with park 1500 acres of open space and a little further out in time and equally important are the power plant and known as the nrg site and acquired by another group and again thats a project with the im sascale as pier 70. We dont know what it will provide yet but similar mixed use environment to pier 70 and Hunters Point also is a large site could be up to 1200 Housing Units and other opportunities for open space and other Community Assets so those are the five projects were focusing on. I am now turn it over to my colleague mike martin who will take you through the rest of the presentation. Good afternoon commissioners. Mike martin owed. As was mentioned this is sort of our second trip around to a number of the interested commissions. In addition since we saw you last may weve always had an opportunity to see a number of Community Groups along this stretch of the southern bay front and i think that outreach helped us build out a lot of the Strategic Elements of what were trying to go for in the various negotiations much of which you have seen in your projects and term sheets so youre familiar with the items as we go through. This slide sort of summarize a lot of the key feedback and a lot of it has to do with obviously the Current Community wanting to know what are the projects going to do to augment and improve what is there . So things like Affordable Housing and prioritizing existing neighborhood residents and need looking for workforce training for specific training Employment Opportunities to get ahead of the opportunities so people looking for work from San Francisco can get the opportunities in the efforts to hire local workers and firms. Work force training is a key part of that. In addition transportation and streetscape improvements, trying to keep pace with implementation so the impacts of growth are met with the things to channel the impacts. Limiting the car trips and gridlock and hoping that alternative modes of transportation can be a help Going Forward. Access to new waterfront open spaces really giving an inviting sense for the people that already live here so the projects arent just built for the people moving in. Planning for Sea Level Rise impacts and obviously a district like this needs to look ahead and that future and designing projects with innovative and strong sustainability principles, so as part of that Community Feedback as well as moving forward with conversations with each of the Development Partners we have isolated a number of key areas and tried to identify a unified framework and project is one off and not is only doing the most it can for Community Benefits but also part of a larger narrative about the revitalization of San Francisco so you see in the red circles there are a number of areas we advanced on since the last time we seen you and i will summarize today. Housing affordability. Were seeking to achieve 33 affordability across all of the southern bay front projects coming forward. This is meant to be sort of an area wide target so each individual project may vary from the amount. As mr. Rich said i think these larger projects give us an opportunity to grow the pie of Affordable Housing but also to address hard to reach income levels and larger family units so trying to get that moderate and middle income family housing, the Work Force Housing that doesnt have subsidies like lower income does and how can we build that in to make sure San Francisco isnt a city of extremes . In addition we want to build off of the aggressive local preference policy by the board of supervisors in recent transactions again to bring some of the benefits of the below market rate housing to those in San Francisco that need it and keep people from being displaced that moves forward as a key issue in San Francisco. Transportation as i mentioned is obviously a critical issue for this part of the city. Theres a number of transportation investments that are coming forward as sort and being implemented as the projects are coming forward for approval. A number are listed here including the opening of the central subway so its a huge improvement in terms of head ways especially at northern end of tthird and limit the congestion coming that is really going to frankly exist the mission bay neighborhoods and the port projects coming forward. There is additional improvements that are implemented also. I think one of the ones that obviously in the headlines is caltrain electrification. We are hopeful it can come forward despite the impasse and adding that frequency can alleviate the coniest john. You have other investments that add eastwest capacity so we have big boned sort of Capital Projects coming forward and what we want to do is sort of having the individual projects that are coming forward to benefit from the investments really try to engage with them so finding ways to enhance transit reliability and capacity and fill gaps in the network so alternate modes for short trip such as walking and biking are effective so everyone is forced to pick between muni and jumping on a car and other ways to get around local destinations and each individual project as an opportunity to address really support the citys transit demand ordinance in such a way to not only seek to encourage the use of other modes but to monitor performance and change strategies over time as they mature and the different mix uses sort of reveal themselves as to how theyre affecting transportation patterns. And as i mentioned earlier i think the site design has a lot to do with people getting along the stretch of the waterfront. Thats important. Thank you. So obviously all those things have to connect so not only do we have the arteries of transportation but also the capillaries to get at these locations along the waterfront. Moving to open space 520 acres of new and renovated open space when you aggregate the projects together and half the size of Golden Gate Park and the vast majority new planned open space in the city so we need to make that accessible to the new residents and also something that the current residents can see as a benefit and improvement that comes along with the growth of the city. So ultimately i think weve started a really good collaboration with the park and rec park and the developers to think how do we create a seamless User Experience even though we know the ownership of each site is different between the port and private developers and their open spaces and rec park for example and indian basin so having a framework of way finding, having a unified place to go to make references for the open space so they know who owns it and were building on that and one of the ways that a strategic framework can create benefits than the negotiations itself. Sustainability is the next item. I think you heard about your projects and forward thinking but ultimately i think the opportunity for the large projects is to use District Strategies that individual buildings cant sort to mort efficiently use resources bike like water and energy. And transportation as a key aspect and the benefits of getting them out of the cars is not just congestion but air quality and water and implement the citys forward thinking on the water reuse amendments that were just passed that require large projects to find a way to use all of the potential resources to limit the uses of Potable Water and using the coastal adaptation strategies for a living coast line and as part of the Sea Level Rise conversation were looking at ways these parks along the waterfront while theyre not inundated at all times theyre resilient with a storm or water event. As the Sea Level Rises we would like these areas adaptable and resilient and function as open space ecosystems effectively and look at these key areas and i think the plans that have been advanced and the plans we think have been advanced can achieve interesting and forward thinking things to help San Francisco meet the goals Going Forward and the 35 of green emissions over a San Francisco development and 42,000gallons of Potable Water saved every year compared to a single generic building and 25 of the area and dedicated green space and other areas there isnt much of an opportunity and we will try to make this part of the larger narrative and have the projects contribute to that and create that story. Sea level rise obviously the Port Commission needs no introduction to this topic. I think what we want to see is not only an initial build out that protects the developments themselves which as an investment of capital obviously the developers and owners will require but we want to find a way to address the citys challenges with the other areas that dont have this investment coming so the developments themselves will also include their own adaptation strategies but we would like to do something the port has done with projects and use some of the public financial tools available to us to create out year Funding Strategies so that the future adaptation can be paid for not only for the developments but also for the areas near them so as people request why are you building along the waterfront . And this is the answer and not only a useful part of the city now and an area we need to revitalize for the people that live here but can create tools to protect the waterfront including the port zone seawall so ultimately this is going to be a negotiation on each project but once we have the larger frame were able to get to that kind of an outcome. Community facilities is obviously something that is challenging from a lot of directions because its not always purely public facilities and include Child Care Centers or Grocery Stores or other private Health Centers or things that are delivered as part of a neighborhood as it grows that we want to make sure there to serve as long as with the Public Services and fire and police stations and schools and libraries so were look working with the Planning Department to look at resources, figure out the best practices for the incoming population of workers and residents and seeing what are the facilities we need and whether we can negotiate space to accommodate the uses and this look can balance needs from one direction from resources from another. Workforce development as i described earlier i think is critical and sort of bringing home the benefits of these developments to San Francisco. I think we have opportunities to train for current trades and other potential end use jobs even that are currently going to be coming forward with projects and we would like to see residents have those opportunities and create the circle of investment and moving up the employment ladder and this is a field with construction trades but we have opportunities with mixed use developments to think about the businesses there in the future and what we can do to get residents into those jobs. So next steps as described we have a couple of years of intense negotiations and approval dialogues with the various commissions and the board. We want to highlight i think every project is not going to hit the list we went through today and having the individual approvals is make efficient choices which project contributes to which goal as we reach the strategic goals outlined today and that concludes the presentation but were happy to respond to any questions. Thanks mike. Is there any Public Comment . I dont have any cards on 11a. Do you have anything to say on 11a please come up and hit the mic. Seeing none. Public comment is now closed. Commissioner kounalakis. Well thank you so much for this really terrific overview. I am still the newest member so these Bigger Picture overviews of where the city is going with Development Projects relative to port property in particular are extremely helpful. I guess i am mostly wondering you have as part of your presentation the timeline on these things. Are these overlapping timelines . I mean is there is there are there concerns things are delayed because other projects are moving forward . I guess my question is in terms of the pipeline is the pipeline over crowded with all of this or is there a pretty good sense its all going to move forward at the pace its naturally progressing . Let me try to answer that in a couple of ways. Are you referring to the pipeline to entitle them or actually build the units and the office space or maybe both . Mostly both. Okay. But i am curious about that as well. Sometimes you feel there is construction on every block and sometimes its less so. In the scale of all of these things happening at the same time how do you think about this in terms of so first maybe to address it from getting our job is to get these complex projects through the regulatory process and through entitlements which means being approved by a number of commissions including you and the port and the board of supervisors and i wish i could say that they lined up perfectly so each time we ended one the other one started but life doesnt really work that way and i would say we are in the midst of three the three projects that i mentioned in the earlier side and pier 70 and mission rock and indian basin are coming through within six months of each other and the two port projects being first and pier 70 the first and we just have to deal with that and get them through it. We also have some other projects of this scale in other parts of the city coming through at this point so and then then a bit of a break so our work load isnt completely under our control but we will get them done for sure. In terms of when theyre entitled and the units coming online and the biggest determiner and maybe to ask forest city how they see the market in the future, but its really going to be the market that determines how fast these things move. My understanding is forest city would like to move as quickly as possible but the market you know, the way that we understand the market working in San Francisco and the way we have seen it work is when the market is receptive and hot you will get everything moving and when its not you wont get anything moving and the only thing you will see moving and its a good thing is Public Finance projects which we like to see happening during down times because it evens out the jobs, construction jobs. We will probably see these projects for better or worse come together they are done when the market is receptive and not a lot to do about that and if other folks that present after me have a perspective on that i would like to hear it, but generally were seeing maybe leveling off on a huge boom and saw everything happen during that boom, and you know thats kind of the way it works here. We would love to even it out more and again with Affordable Housing and public projects we are able to do that, but with the private projects its subject to the market. Is that thats it, yeah. Thanks. Commissioner brandon. Thank you ken and mike for the presentation. This is wonderful and very much forward thinking. I really appreciate it. Its a great plan and i guess i am just im not sure exactly well, i guess my question is we have all these projects and we have all these various commitments for the projects, and how are they prioritized . I mean how do we decide what gets done first versus what doesnt . Its like all the money goes into one pot and divide it equally or do we give preference . I wish you would ask easier questions. [laughter] you know it is this is a major you know a major challenge and i think it is one of the roles of you as Decision Makers to validate and guide us whether were prioritizing things. We could do 50 Affordable Housing but not afford a lot of transportation improvement focus we do that. We could do a lot more open space which takes away the revenue parts of the development but then we couldnt so i hesitate to talk about to tell you which one of the priorities is the highest. It goes without saying that the mayor has charged all of us to wake up thinking about Affordable Housing and go to sleep thinking about Affordable Housing so that rises to the top but if we dont deal with Sea Level Rise then the housing wont be there in a few years and if we dont deal with transportation the people inviting to live here cant get around so i couldnt tell you. We just try to do the best balancing act we can and also to answer part of the question the way we approach the projects is we look at all of their economics, even the ones that are not on City Property so obviously you have been through the pro forma for pier 70. We model the pro formas of the private projects too to make sure were asking for enough but not too much so you could come up with a total dollar amount of exactly you ask of a project and we do a version of this and total you ask for before they wont make a project and therefore dont go ahead and have to slot it it into the different categories and we do our best but theyre all of the highest priority. Thank you. Then as far as Community Outreach i think you have done a great job but i hope to include rcas and especially the advisory committees on waterfront. Thank you. Commissioner katz. Thank you ken and mike. Its helpful seeing all of this and i appreciate the focus on coordination because you know that was a big concern of all of ours. As weve seen all of the projects coming along and sort of waiting to make sure that we get everything coordinated so i am pleased to see everything done and thank you for walking on water in this case and balancing all the different needs. In terms of some of the specifics i guess one thing and its really in legal parlance this is a leading question. You can explain why we havent done a larger area plan opposed to working on the different projects . You know we have done a lot of area plans in the eastern neighborhood plans and these projects, you know the difference the reason were going in a different direction here is those area plans, the Eastern Market and octavia and other ones and smaller projects and a lot of units and development but theyre all the sort of projects that would go through under regular zoning so we in an area wide basis we determine what fees and Community Benefits and heights and all of that and none are large enough to lend themselves to this but the specific opportunities that we have with larger projects so these projects are very large and we think we can get better Community Benefits from them with a one off negotiation with each one and as mike mentioned and exciting to have a taxation structure and melloroos tax to stick around and pay for Sea Level Rise improvements and protection from Sea Level Rise. I dont think we can negotiate that in a area plan with a whole bunch of projects but we can go through we have five projects and negotiation with each and look at the finances and each pace their own rate and its not even and the bigger projects are better to have customized negotiations and look at the finances of each project. When we figure out like the central soma plan going through now has to model the extractionos the medium so it cant place them so high that half of the projects will fail and not be able to go or so low that too many are getting a free lunch. Here we can ask for as much we can for each project. I started off with a leading question and thats the answer i was looking for and thank you and i wanted to note for the public this gives us an opportunity to be strategic if you will about what happens around each project and how it all works together. Also just and thank you for the efforts in terms of addressing Sea Level Rise and how we can work with the seawall although i am sure there are folks down there that might upon the ocean front property but dont want to have that happen. And also i want to thank you for the focus on sustainability as you move forward. Theyre all topics that i am pleased to see theyre coming to the forefront in all of these design efforts. One question and we touched it a little bit in terms of transportation coordination. Theres a lot of changes and talking how transportation has been changing and i know were probably going to be chasing it a little bit as all the presentation projects come on but in terms of the next generation if you will in transportation how we look at some of the multimodal requirements and being more creative in a little like octavia boulevard and a model for the rest of the world and have the different transportation elements in one location. Are we starting to incorporate into the design here and keeping bicycle lanes separate from traffic and more Public Safety . I will give mr. Rich a break on this one, so yeah. I think that i dont know if you all recall there was a waterfront transportation assessment that mta lead a few years ago and had interesting findings that the sort of peak hour congestion in the trans bay area of soma was rippling down to the mission bay and the mission rock area and they were blocking everyone trying to get anywhere and if we eliminate some of the trips and out of the cars and safer grid and its still challenged but do a lot for the rush hour corridors youre seeing. Were looking to is there a expanded water transportation service, want just ferries across the board but water taxis to the new population from south to the downtown and i know the port has an existing service and make sure that the projects Work Together and plugged into a Larger Service that way and opening up a new way to travel south and north along the same corridor. Great. And then not to put you on the spot but as were trying to figure out how to move the caltrain electrification forward how will that have an impact on some of the efforts were doing here positively or negatively if we dont get all of the funding in on the time frame we would like to see it happen . The political uncertainties arent something i can opine on well but the electrification was seen as a benefit and move caltrain closer to bart style headways and more trains coming up through the same corridor and the mix used projects that are Employment Centers as well as Resident Centers it would be helpful to link that peninsula to San Francisco. I think theres a lot of efforts not only electrification but the downtown extension and trans bay. I think all of those things are currently seeking dollars and currently trying to get done but when theyre done and i do believe they will get done i think it will definitely create hopefully catches up with the growth and create a network that has more connectivity than now. I think were are definitely experiencing the gaps in the network and one key piece we want to kill as soon as we can. Maybe that might be something looking at opportunities that arise not having a cookie cutter approach to the area and may be some things to look at from getting additional funding perhaps from some of the transportation. Yeah, i think thats one part of the strategy and not just caltrain but aggregate. We know there are transportation and sustainability fees off of the projects. Can we aggregate those to use them locally for projects that do what were talking about . And the 700 million price tag is out of the range but the same idea and create the better connection in all directions . Thank you very much. Mike and den i was going to say this is really an ambitious agenda. It really is and with the state of our country its good to know that were moving forward because San Francisco always marchs to its own beat and being a sanctuary city its important that we move forward. This southern waterfront this is the next renaissance in our city and we know how important housing is in the city, jobs. Weve heard about transportation, congestion and when we really think about it when we think about the four most congested cities in the word. Los angeles is number one. Moscow is number two. Los angeles is number 3 and San Francisco is number 4 and you hit on something, ken and mike both. Be the subway, water taxis, ferry, biking but we have to have some kind of transportation to think with success. This is great. But with success you always have problems and theyre good problems to have as we work through this and i appreciate the update and i ask that you continue to reach out to the community. The community has to go along. The trnz transparency from our community has to be there because this port, this city belongs to every citizen and everybody has to feel theyre a part of it. They own it because actually were moving to the next level and doing these things and so when you prioritize how they come out ken do you think theres going to be any problems in funding or anything or do you think were going to be okay with the private partnerships and things that we have . So we dont have to worry about federal funding from President Trump or the government. Do you think were going to do what we have to do . Continuing the difficult questions to answer. I dont want to make commitments around federal funding. Unlike Affordable Housing that the federal government backed off of that a decade or two ago its important to know that the major Funding Source for transportation is still the federal government and we were supposed to have someone from mta today but shes ill and could have answered it better but the funds are helpful as a match of federal fund and if that change it is significantly that will be a problem. And im not in that enough to understand what that landscape looks like but we do need a lot of money from the feds. Well as an example now that the feds put on hold the caltrain electrification money that money is in doubt and everyone is trying to make up the funding and hope that the grl federal government will change their mind or we need that for the projects. Were more sufficient on the local bike lanes and pedestrian oriented projects but on the major ones we are going to need it. Thank you. Madam secretary next item please. 11b information presentation regarding the forest city proposed pier 70 special use district design for development for the area boarderedded generally by 20th street and michigan street and 22nd street and San Francisco bay. We have been working with the port on the pier 70 area since 2013 when the Port Commission endorsed the term sheet. Since then forest city presented several times to the commission, has done extensive Community Outreach and as recently as of october 2016 presented an overview of the Land Use Plan and design for development. This afternoon jack will walk through a more detailed overview of the design for development. That document is used. It provides direction to both the developer and city staff to make certain that there are criteria and direction for how new horizontal and vertical development and adaptive reuse of historic facilities are constructed. This will make certain that the improvements maintain the integrity of the iron Historic District and pier 70 is an attractive place to make the place comfortable place to live, work, play and visit. The design for development will be included in the proposed pier 70s special use district of the citys zoning code and i will note that the draft design for development as presented today as gone through extensive review and collaboration with the San Francisco Planning Department, public works work, municipal transportation agency, the puv and the office of economic and Workforce Development and with that i will have jack present. Thank you. Thank you david. Commissioners, president adams, staff. Thank you. I am very excited to be here of the every time we come its becoming more and more real. I can almost feel the construction starting to happen, so weve committed to be efficient with your time and we will do that so just a reminder this is now ten years in the making. You could probably go back further than that but the ports master planning process started in 2007 and a three year process and a year to select forest city and we have been at it for six years working with the community and the city family and your staff to move this forward. Weve had literally thousands of people have their eyes on the vision that has been put forward for pier 70 and have an opportunity to provide input which we think has made the plans stronger have more support and ultimately have a greater sense of ownership for what is created. A little bit of a reminder for context and this is baked into the Design Guidelines mentioned. Were talking about a mixed use project centered around a node of Historic Buildings out on the sited it, buildings 12, two and 21 which i think youve all seen and we all know and love. The Land Use Plan includes some Development Parcels that will be commercial office, some parcels that are residential, some parcels that could actually flex between office and residential which is very common in San Francisco. You see this in most of downtown and south of market and allows us to be responsive to what ultimately is planned and implemented on the southern boundary of the site both on the portero power plant property and the members of the public substation. One. Pg e substation and one thing we were encouraged to be thoughtful how we locate uses in the project that activate the site that create an authentic pier 70 experience, and there were examples that folks would give of development thats happened around the neighborhood where it doesnt certainly there is residential and office but didnt include the components that make San Francisco neighborhoods great. The space for arts, pdr, for neighborhood services, for nonprofits so weve actively programd that in as well as identifying key locations where there has to be retail or neighborhood services. Weve talked before the specific attention that weve paid to creating a place that is really for walking for wandering for discovering the place, a series of pedestrian pathways and the majority of the waterfront site really is a pedestrian priority zone exhibited by not having a road between the Waterfront Parks and most of the buildings, and this is something that to some degree you could argue has been part of the history of the place and the character of the place for decades, and as we were going through the process with our design team thinking about how do we create a new Waterfront Park network that honors pier 70, that feels like pier 70 and complementary to what else you find on the waterfront, so rather than recreating the marina green or rincon green pier 70 asks to be a more urban site and so our Landscape Architect Field Operations who those of you who have been to the high line in new york and know that the way they have found to bring the history and the gritty character into something that is a modern experience looked at the site and how it was used traditionally and where there were these open areas that were adjacent to buildings. It wasnt one large open area but a series of them and that became the framework for an open Space Program that is like a series of room that have a distinct character, distinct design and distinct use, so that at different parts of the day, different parts of the year you actually you have a diversity of experience of who is coming and how theyre using the place, and so we talk about these rooms, and we use them one of the ways that we use to describe them to folks is use local references so we talk about how this park network is five or six parks or San Francisco open space areas in one, so the playground that will be adjacent to irish hill is not unlike the scale and the character that we see at the dolores park playground. Around building 12 is a series of platform and urban plaza not unlike what you find in front of this building here between the embarcadero and the face of the building where theres lots of events and very active use. Along the southern part of the waterfront we have more of a waterfront promenade that is fronted by restaurants, bars, and scale wise not dissimilar from the embarcadero rincon park where water bar and epic roast house i forget the name of it. I think you guys know where that is so its a good example. Theyre not many places in the bay area that you can sit on the water on a patio. There is no road between you and the water and the bay trail is right there. Slip ways commons which actually connects the waterfront to the Historic Buildings, not unlike the scale of south park if you took the roads away and the building is fronted up on it and the northern part of the site is more of a green space that is on par with the scale of the not all of chrissy field but the picnic area so the Design Guidelines are really about putting in place a framework for how do we make a great place at pier 70 . And i think its one of the reasons that forest city was chosen by the port. I think weve shown in other places around the country how we have done that. We have a project in dc called the yards and we encourage you all and happy to host you all and its a magnificent project and the parallels with pier 70 are quite surprising. We have a great design team that has been working on and really appreciated working with the port staff, the planning staff, owed and everybody else that has been involved to create a framework that is really what pier 70 deserves. Its what the city deserves and ultimately will will create value for the port and for forest city, and theres no one characteristic that needs to be included in this framework. Theres a series of elements to it that all have to be treated appropriately and balanced and then bound together, and theyre shown here and another way to think about it is three dimensionally so we want to create these great parks and inviting public realm, the design and the character of the streets that we create requires a lot of attention and frankly a lot of battles with ways of doing things, ways of building streets that maybe arent the best for pedestrians and bikes providing robust Public Benefits throughout the buildings and in the parks through some of the programs that mike mentioned, work force programs, Small Business Diversity Programs and some of the retail spaces. The rehabilitation of the his structures, the treatment of the ground floor of the New Buildings and also importantly the design framework that we put in place to have new construction buildings and how do we do that . So i dont have it up here but theres a thick document were proud of that is the framework and the Design Guidelines and referred to as design for development and it talks about this land use framework about the mix of uses, the Makers Market hall in building 12, the arts facility on the waterfront which will have the replacement studio space for the artists. It has priority retail zones in the buildings. It limits the amount of Ground Floor Office so you have the active public realm. It has a specific open space section and framework where it talks about some of the things that we must do and we cant do and were not modifying the remnants of irish hill but have a playground and honor it and the view and where its appropriate and what type of vegetation can be used . And given its a his district it prioritizing programs for areas. Where do you want to a waterfront for dining and appropriate for play and picnicking and design it that its flexible enough to accommodate the Food Festival and 30,000 people out there and we think is a great opportunity for pier 70. I talked about the streets and not make them overly wide but still able to get all of the utilities, provide Emergency Vehicle service, parking. It actually is one of the most complicated peedz pieces of the project and the Design Guidelines are the launching point for what is a very detailed streetscape master plan that were working on as well. And then lastly and im going to let kelly talk a little bit about the show you what some of these Design Guidelines elements how they will play out through the renderings that we have to show you what that actually looks like, but we the framework has many of the things that are traditionally in Design Guidelines, how tall can the building be . How much massing . How many units . But one of the things that we think our design team has really pushed the envelope is an innovative approach to provide boundaries around the Building Design that dont overly constrain the creativity of the architect. It gets into things that weve never seen before at least in Design Guidelines documents in San Francisco about preferred materials so its a Historic District and its got really beautiful rich materials and so theres actual discussion in there what materials are preferred and even so far as how they maybe treated so theyre consistent with the Historic District and this is a very high level of commitment that we are very comfortable with as we intend to build most of the buildings and we want that commitment to live with buildings the design of buildings that we also dont build and deliver to maintain the quality and integrity of the district so the slide that i have up here is one of our favorites. We jokingly call it the rainbow diagram. What you see here the colored bars are the different treatments and guidelines and standards that apply at all of the facades in the district so there are certain facades that are adjacent to Historic Buildings that need a sensitive approach that may prohibit materials or require a setback but ensures were not trying to mimic in new construction what say Historic Building next to it. I think one of the things that under lines the Design Guidelines also if you go out to the sited it what you see are buildings that are actually giet actual quite large and large facades and dont have the traditional approach to design for that type of building which is set it back, recess entries. What they have theyre actually more or less boxes and incredible materials and have a rich texture so what our Design Guidelines have incorporated almost through a lead type framework is the ability to choose do you want to spend more money on a facade and have that really rich texture or is a better treatment maybe you do have a bit of a recess in a certain area along the waterfront that acknowledges the shoreline so im going to let kelly now go through the fun pictures and show you how through the renderings some of the treatments and guidelines would play out in the design. Thank you jack. President adams and members of the commission i am kelly and its my pleasure to present on the pier 70 project. I also apologize for my informal dress. At this point my wardrobe options have shrunk considerably. Jack went through the frameworks that underpin the design documents and now i have the fun task of showing you pictures what it would look like in place. In order to create the renderings in the presentation as well as to test some of the approaches and concepts presented and for architects to prepare designs compliant with the standards and guideline with the document so we literally hired an architect, handed them the document and design a facade that meets all of the requirements within the draft document so what youre seeing is not finished by any means but a facade study but gave us a chance to test the ideas and whether the document produced the type of knowledges that were awe. Buildings that were awetentic to the his heritage and pleased with the results. What you see here is of 22nd street and the building on the left and building 15 is supposed to be retained with assessment and this will run underneath. Using the framework that jack walked through previously this demonstrates key requirements in the d for d. For example the building across the street is required to belt to building 12 and you can see that through the horizontal data and additional requirements and massing and modulation allowable uses within the ground floor are limited to retail and Light Industrial and arts and the streetscape is shaped to promote Pedestrian Safety above all. But we know that great places are not defined by the physical realm and architecture and conveys some of the components how we will make pier 70 a complete neighborhood and addressing Sea Level Rise and making transit investments and creating opportunities for all businesses and residents. We do this by committing to a 30 hire for construction jobs and to the execution of a pla for the project and lbe requirement for contracting for the project. Forest city has its Diversity Program which were committed to providing the port with monitoring and reports as well. This next rendering is this time at the waters edge. You can see the dry edge of the repair facility and the skyline in the distance. Again the d for d prescribes controls to ensure that the buildings and public realm and spaces are successful and awses thentic to the site and extensions of the trail and materials for the open space design and prioritization of art uses are part of the design controls and again thinking that great places are defined by more than their architecture what this is conveying is replacement studio place for tenants and the structures and making them available to get closer to the water and shoreline at pier 70. So to recap what jack mentioned and what we attempted to do with the document is to really bring together all of the disciplines that shape the places that we experience, not just architecture but compatibility with historic character, how the ground floor feels as a pedestrian and healthy mixes to promote a active place during the week and the weekend. This is a slide you have seen previously and was woven into the rendering today presented but the project delivers on a host of benefits described in proposition f in 2014 and additional benefits that have been worked on through with the port and owed keeping in mind the southern bay front strategy that you saw a presentation and how pier 70 fits into the larger context and planning picture. And then last but not least i get to give you the wonky approvals process procedure, my favorite part. So some of the key documents that are under way for pier 70 of course the eir, the Environmental Impact report and the foundation for all are based and preparation of a special use district that david mentioned and this Document Incorporated intie reference into that sud. Alongside development of an agreement and disposition and Development Agreement and infrastructure plan outlining the obligations of forest city as far as delivery of infrastructure and site wide amenities. When New Buildings come approval theyre evaluating against the requirements outlined in the sud and the d for d and eir and mitigation measures and the city of San Francisco and the ports building code. A vertical developer submits an application to the port. A staff report is prepared and submitted to the director. If a building is fully compliant with the sud and d for d there is planning director approval of that Design Review and allows for buildings what is referred as a minor modification or deviation of less than 10 of certain standards that are outlined in the d for d. In the event that a building is proposed that includes a major modification and greater than 10 deviation in this then the building goes forward before the Planning Commission for hearing and approval. The process for evaluation of historic rehabilitation should look familiar it to and you similar to what happens with the port property and with all of these things the developer submits the application to the port and the director gives approval of that proposed rehabilitation. And then finally talking about open space Schematic Design this again being governed by the requirements of the sudd for deir and the forest city would submit design and review and comment by the committee and port staff and that design would go before the Port Commission before you for decision and approval. With that i will conclude my presentation and happy to answer any questions that you may have. Thanks kelly and jack. I wanted to take a second also to recognize that beyond the city team we have been working with to develop this and all the effort and time that forest city has put into it and their Consultant Team a pretty large amount of port staff have gone into it and recognition and brad benson and project management and diane and steven, wendy, mark and many other staff to develop this. Thank you. Is there any Public Comment on 11b . Anyone that would like to speak on 11b please hit the mic. Seeing none. Public comment is now closed. Commissioner katz. Well thank you for the presentations and i wont repeat the staffful individual but thank you for the dig against on the project and this is one of the most significant projects to hit the city in a long time and the impact for generations to come and excited to see the thought going into and kelly and jack thank you for your presentation. It was very thorough so i enjoyed that and i know i spoke to you about other locations in the world that have waterfront sites and i am a broke record with the line sight and have that and how a project along this size can be integrated along the waterfront and create the spaces for different uses. One question i had just another area thats a big focus of mine with respect to you talked about some of the landscaping that is going in on the sites that require i forget the term used here, shrubbery, but what are the plans in terms of Tree Planting and creating that sort of opportunity . Thank you for the question. So i think one of the robust discussions that we have been having across the Planning Department, port staff and our design team is how do you what is the appropriate way to build new streets and parks that are livable, attractive, thal create value when we go out and looking to attract an anchor Office Tenant they will feel like theyre coming to a place that has a little bit of softness to it . And you know we have been trying to strike the right balance. There have been certain recommendations about the Historic District didnt have greenery so we shouldnt have that in certain areas. We would certainly like to be able to strike a balance there. Great thank you. Thats all. I will give you by bias as i look at some of the other world class cities and the fact they have a lot of trees such as paris and other places and youre able to incorporate the trees in with the communities there. Could you talk a little more how youre going to address Sea Level Rise and how it impacts potentially impacts the project or what is being done to minimize . Sure. So at its simplest what were doing is raising the grade of the site. Over the course of the planning of the project the states recommendation for what Sea Level Rise could be at 2100 from 55 inches to 66 inches and a range and took the high end and adjusted it up and make sure all of the buildings are set at least at that level. By the time you actually slope the site back towards illinois street you get up a little bit higher because you need the drainage for stormwater and wet utilities. What were doing at the park store line portion of the park is the bay trail is being set to 2050 levels and recognizing that if we could build the waterfront up to accommodate 66 inches of Sea Level Rise today but it would separate people from the bay today, the portion of the shoreline they havent had access to and for a condition that wont exist for decades maybe my daughter will never even be affected by that, so what the design team came up with was effectively an informal path at the level of the site today along the shoreline. Those crane ways that kelly mentioned which stick out, the short piers that stick out 20, 30 feet in the water and keep them at the level theyre at and a great location for fishing or sitting quietly at the bay and the treatment from the informal path will actually accommodate the rising of tides over time so that the use of the park. Initially all day all year can use all of the park n20 years there is a number of days there is a storm event and dont want to be on the informal path but the rest of the year you can be. In 60, 70 years theyre the concrete steps that lead down to the path. Maybe that fourth step up is now the informal path along the shoreline so it gives us the ability to give access today but have that managed for that and of course mike may have mentioned this mechanism. There will be a funding plan in place to be able to make future adaptive improvements when theyre necessary in whatever that scope is that is necessary and obviously the port will have control of that, but thats obviously really important piece, not just the creativity of design but the creativity of having a finance program that is able to respond to future conditions at the point that is needed. Great. And last question is where are we in terms of falling under the Current Office cap and how that has an impact on the project . I feel i should let ken answer that question and did a good job answering the difficult questions and certainly something to be worked out. The citys got eight or 10 million square feet of office that wants to be built and right now about a million square feet in the cap and 875 is add each year and its a challenge and we have to be sharpening our pencils. Thank you very much. I am excited about the project with or without kidding. Commissioner kounalakis. Thank you so much for the presentation. With every iteration the pier 70 project becomes more clear in my mind what will it look like and such a tremendous Development Opportunity down there. There is nothing else like it and you did such a wonderful job in connecting the old and the new and the past and the future, so really my only question for you is on timeline. You have a timeline at the beginning of your presentation that says mid2016 project approval, and i am wondering then going to the end of your presentation when you talk about the entitlement process for eir, special use district, d for d, Development Infrastructure plan and disposition agreement. Where are those on the timeline and what is the projection to when you think you will break ground . So apparently we didnt update the slide in the presentation. We are not approved as far as were aware, so we are hoping that the project approvals happen late this summer which is why were saying we can already hear the cranes moving. All of the documents that you mentioned theyre the project approvals documents. Okay. So super tuesday at the Port Commission and super thursday at the Planning Commission and super tuesday again with the board of supervisors we would hope be happening between july, august, september. As i think we have mentioned in the past we are really the company is really leaning into this project. We are hoping to catch the momentum of this cycle even as it is leveled off a little bit. We feel good about where its headed. We think that pier 70 is a good longterm investment in the early years are really the most important for the economic success of the project, so we right now on a parallel path with preparing the Design Guidelines and the dda, streetscape master plan were starting to do work with the ports Engineering Team with dpw and puc and preparing the phase one infrastructure plan so that at the point that the project is approved we would be construction ready. There is probably maybe a one, two week permit process maybe a couple of months, but our hope would be that were getting in the ground on starting the infrastructure end of this year, early 2018. We really you know, were going to be spending several Million Dollars at risk because this is not typically what is done. Typically a developer waits until the project is approved and then take it to that level of construction drawings. We think there is an advantage of timing and certainty with the city agencies to have to sign off on the engineering drawings and see in other projects and thought they had agreement and turned out because of detail they werent and caused delay later but were really as i have said leaning into it in the hopes that we can be in the ground relatively quickly and implementing something that is thus far felt like its had pretty broad support. Wonderful. Thanks. Commissioner brandon. Jack, kelly and david and grant and thank you for the presentation. Its very good. Its hard to believe its only been ten years. It seems like so much longer but i am happy finally were at a place we might put the shovel in the project and exciting project and wonderful and i want to commend you on the extensive outreach and engagement in the process. I think thats wonderful. I think most of my comments have been answered regarding the Sea Level Rise and approval process. The one thing shelly mentioned a dwrsity program that you have in place. Can you tell me more about that . So this is an initiative that forest city is taken on as a Corporate Citizen to encourage diversity in forest citys contracting processes so we have kind of internal self imposed reporting mechanism whereby we prioritize a use of minority owned businesses, women owned businesses and veteran owned businesses and diverse business ownerships and one of the mechanisms that we have been in discussions with the port as well as the Contract Monitoring Division and share the reporting and forest city is already doing for itself to monitor its own performance and share that with the port as well. Great. How are you doing so far . Well, that is for construction level so we dont have that for the predevelopment but we have the lbe goal for the phase one which we exceeded every quarter thus far and doing good on that utilization for the eir phase as we call it. Great thank you. Of course. To jack, david, kelly and the port staff and a special thank you and i know director forbes and you kim and had to get involved and probably have to stay involved but jack i was knowing about and i came on the Commission Six years ago and me and commissioner katz came out and you gave us a tour around the dark buildings and Walking Around and this vision you were laying out to us and i am really so glad its starting to really come into fruition but the Community Outreach jack that you guys have done has been great, and you have listened and you went back and forth and one of the smartest and courageous things you did is that you went to the ballot and it was so good when you went to the ballot and let the citizens. That was smart and thinking out of the box and i think that was very, very good and i just want to commend you for your patience and your due diligence. This is tough. This is tough just us listening to it getting our head around it. This thing is so complex. Its like a helicopter and so many moving parts and you have been patient and working through but last time you were here jack i asked you a question. You mentioned about it a little today and worried about the market going soft and what are your thoughts . You mentioned it earlier so what are your thoughts . Is that something you guys have been thinking about as an organization or anything . Absolutely. I mean we are constantly assessing the market both nationally and locally. We feel good about where the local market is. It definitely has weve seen a softening in rents more on the apartment side than the office side but longterm we think its more sustainable sustainable and instead of drop off an ease off but right now its a strong location. Companies want to be here. Jobs are being created. Interest rates sounds like theyre going up. Will that have implication . What will happen with some of the tax credit programs . Theres been tax about Corporate Tax code changing and softened the value of tax credits, so we certainly were not procost nateors ever the National Economic situation but right now the best indicator is were spending money we dont need to be spending to move the first phase forward 12 months earlier than otherwise which i think is an indication of the belief that we have longterm in the San Francisco market. Thank you very much. Madam secretary next item please. Item 11 c informational presentation regarding recologys proposed integrated Materials Recovery facility at pier 96. Good afternoon commissioners, director forbes, brad benson director of special projects here to present to you maybe i will wait its a lot of people. So another exciting project potential project for the southern waterfront. Recology is a major tenant in the southern waterfront today. Pier 96 they participate recycle center, major recycling facility for the blue bin material and theres a potential opportunity to add to that construction and demolition debris recycling in a new falt facility that would be added it to recycle center and we want to present this proposal today. We have maurice here representing recology and jake macy from the department of the environment with the city so why dont i dive into the presentation, give you a little bit of overview of the idea and invite maurice to present the proposal for recycling and i will come back up and describe proposed next steps primarily around Public Outreach. So recycle central has been at the port for quite a while now since around 2000. They operate within the pier 96 lash facility. Theres a mechanized processing of blue bin material that comes from the trucks that pick up at the curb around the city. Also handles commercial recycling from Office Buildings in the downtown area. Recology also has another lease on the ports back lands sustainable crushing is a recology affiliate and handles concrete recycling and mixed concrete and asphalt recycling on about 7 acres of the port. Recology is a big company handling a lot of materials in San Francisco. Their main facility is at 501 tunnel avenue. Thats hope to the transfer station for organic material on the way to composting. The black bin material trash is handled through that site. Its also home to c and d, our construction and demolition debris recycling today. This is an image of the sorting work that is happening at recycle center today. This is the hard work of being a sustainable city. We really appreciate all the diversion activities that go on here. Recycle center employs 175 people. These are really well paid positions with promotive opportunities throughout the company. Recology has an excellent record of hiring in the zip codes in the neighborhoods around the facility of the zip codes in the area and hired 161 employees. Cities got very strong standards for recycling and landfill diversion. In 2002 i was working and supervisor amianos office when he had this resolution and landfill diversion of 75 by 2010 and ultimately the Environmental Commission had a goal of zero by 2020 and policies that the city should pursue the highest and best use of materials recycled and consumers and producers have a responsibility for the waste streams that they create. Since that resolution and since the construction of facilities like recycle center the city has done an excellent job of reducing the amount of material sent to landfill. Through policies like the mandatory c and d recycling requirements so anytime theres a demolition project in the city materials have to be sorted and recycled, and this goes to the citys broader Climate Action plan so this is the zero50hundred roots strategy adopted through the environment commission. There are four main strategies to reach the climate goals. Zero to wasteland fill. 50 of trips by sustainable modes and 100 Renewable Energy and what can we do to protect and carbon think and composting is a major component of that strategy so now i would like to hand it over to recology to describe the proposed construction and debris recycle facility at pier 96. Good afternoon president adams, fellow commissioners, director forbes. I am the general manager for recology San Francisco, and recently the Recology Company submitted a refuse rate application to the city and county of San Francisco with several key initiatives targeted increasing diversion and furthering the zero waste goal. Recology proposed revamping the Collection Program by combining organics and trash into one truck and recycles into another truck and reduce the truck trips going to recycle center at pier 96. In addition to this it will allow for substantial more capacity on the blue cart routes. As part of the citywide rerouting efforts recology will provide smaller containers and larger recycling bins to reduce the trash generated and increase the level level of diversion and the material from the black carts. Given the nature this material must be processed in the tunnel road facility which is currently very space constrained. The project before the commission this afternoon contemplates moving the construction and demolition recycling operation to pier 96 to allow us to retrofit the building to process unsorted trash or what essentially remains in the black bin. Relocating this operation to pier 96 allows recology to modernize the processing operation and enabling us to source and employ the newest Processing Technology available and move from arguably out dated manual sorting process to a mechanical sorting system that will be capable of diverting an additional 20 more demolition and construction debris. Recology is looking to work with the port of San Francisco to amend the lease on the pier next facility and 7 acres of land next to the existing lease hold. Were interested in securing a lease for any Additional Space within the mnr building to the west of our existing lease hold. The image on this slide shows the existing mnr building, the proposed recology building and the existing recycle shed in the background and image shows a new scale plaza were installing as part of this project and allow us to efficiently and effectively rescale the trucks for the operation and the existing pier 96 operation. This proposal represents a significant investment in the citys solid waste infrastructure. The investment in the structure as well as the equipment in the building will be nearly 70 million and generate additional rent for the port of San Francisco and revitalize portion of the southern most waterfront tell represent a commit to the zero waste goal of the city. The facility will increase the citys ability to process more material to keep up with the robust economy and construction cycle and generate higher diversion rates and the tons processed and provide employ eeth employees modern state of the art facility and free up land at the tunnel complex and pursue waste processing opportunities. Thank you. So thinking about pier 96 today this is the area west of the pier 96 shed, sort of between pier 96 shed and herons head park. Maurice talked about the maintenance and repair building that has a number of tenants in it. We have tenants used some of the paved land in this area. We believe that weve identified relocation space for the interim non maritime tenants. Under the proposal we would keep the maritime access. This is Shallow Water in this area. Its just a depth of about 6 feet so really the maritime users are barge users that can navigate to this area, so a lease would accommodate that continued use. We have rail in this area too both along the stringer next to pier 96 then out to pier 94 terminal used by Sf Bay Railroad and accommodate that use in the area. Unfortunately pier 96 has sunk since it was constructed in 1972 by about 3 feet so we have periodic flooding particularly in king tide events. This is a real opportunity given the size and scope of this project to address the problems the seawall and the flooding that we see today as well as address future flood risks. This is a plan view of the new building next to the pier 96 shed in between that shed and the maintenance and repair building, and you can see you know on the lower portion of the slide some of the maritime activities and barge activities that would continue. The level of investments that is considered here maurice said 70 million. 50 million is this new building, paving the area and Stormwater Improvement and it is other 20 million the new recycling equipment that would increase rates for the city so weve done a little preliminary analysis of this proposal to share with you today. The pier 96 maritime terminal, the cargo Container Terminal closed in 1998. The pier 96 latch facility itself has a very limited water depth and we would continue the berting activeity i mentioned and this would permit industrial uses. We believe that the use that recology proposes is consistent with the piers 80 through 96 maritime eco industrial strategy. Theres a link to that strategy in the staff report for this item, and we would bring substantial investment to the area. Piers 80 through 96 this area is designated by the city as a potential location for debris after an earthquake. Having the c and d recycling capacity there adjacent to the rail and burrs would be good for the city in recovery of a major event. We think that the lease proposal its 12 years and two five year options is consistent with the waterfront plan and leasing in the southern waterfront for a project of this scale. So on to next steps. This is a big proposal, and with the commissions direction staff would conduct significant Public Outreach to the southern waterfront advisory committee, the maritime commerce advisory committee, the india basin neighborhood association, the echo center at hereon heads park and good to get together with constituencies and to discuss the proposal and see the area from the center and do outreach to the board of supervisors and president breed and district 10 Supervisor Malia Cohen and if i could go over a few steps required if this project is to go forward depending on the results of that Public Outreach. We would need to prepare a more formal public trust and waterfront plan analysis of the proposed use. Part of that would be developed in consult aiz with bcdc and state lands. We would enter or propose to the Port Commission we enter a exclusive negotiating agreement and negotiate a term sheet. Given rent credits that are contemplated in this agreement we think that there would need to be both Port Commission and board of supervisors endorsement of a term sheet and feasibility prior to ceqa and come back to you after public out reach. That concludes my presentation and available for questions as well as jack from the department of the environment and maurice from recology. Thank you. Thank you. David. And david is the one i have a card if you but i notice workers from recology. I am glad you came and if you want to speak please hit the mike. Thank you and i think we should hit from them. I wanted to speak in support of this proposal and the next steps that brad outlined, the importance that maurice talked about. This is a major facility in relocating the cnd processing from tunnel to pier 96 would go towards the citys zero waste goals, improve the capacity, not just the capacity but the diversion because right now theyre limited in both ways, would allow the repurposes of the facility at tunnel to process black bin waste. I agree with all the next steps that brad talked about. Just a couple of quick comments though. I am not sure if the fiscal feablity needs to happen before the ceqa review or if they can run concurrently. If theres a way to start the ceqa process on the proposed facility at risk while the fiscal feasibility is pursued that would optimize the schedule and built and operational sooner rather than later because its a tight time frame in order to get the zero waste goal by 2020 if were going to actually process black bin material by the end of 2020 then this Facility Needs to up and running sooner than later. The stormwater i talked about early item and the rail access is important. I support the continued operation of the rail but i think we could require as part of both the existing recycle center and the i mrf that a number of trips or cargo is done by rail and less trucks and maritime and industrial uses in the area. I am sure the Community Wants improvements to cargo way for a variety of reasons so reports back from the robust outreach and also from Visitacion Valley and the changes contemplated there and not in port jurisdiction but related to the changes here and helpful to the commission so i look forward to your support and hope that they are back as soon as possible with good staff work to make this project a reality for all of us. Thanks. Thanks david. If any workers from recology or the community we would love to hear from you. Please get up and hit the mike. Thank you. Good afternoon. I have been an employee for recology for 17 years now. Im a native in San Francisco and born in the bay view area. I would like to thank recology for giving the opportunity in bay view and hiring from the zip codes and giving us opportunity to work. Recology is a Great Company. I will say we hire from there because were Employee Owned. We dont have too many Employee Owned companies in San Francisco and to be a part of that is a great thing because a lot of companies dont offer that and we give back to the community. Thats another reason i love working with recology. We did a toy drive for the boys and girls club and did it for years and beautified the boys and girls club so recology is a Great Company and open up opportunities for more residents in those areas to have employment and i just want to say thank you. Thank you. Can i just ask you one question before you leave . You mentioned participating in the toy drive. You can tell me the percentage roughly of the employees that participated in that . 100 . We reach out to all the companies in San Francisco. Thats the answer i was looking for. Thank you for doing that. Its extraordinary. Hi. I am damon wilson and working for recology for three years. I am a native of San Francisco by way of my grandparents and in the bayview Hunters Point and i moved out and worked for a company new United Motors and around ten years ago. I was one of the displaced workers there. It was an Excellent Company to work for. A lot of bad things said about the company but i had a different view and allowed me to buy property in my property and travel the world and see things i never seen before. When i was let go i didnt know what i was going to do. I didnt have a degree and even though i worked with people with degrees and jumping into the layoff system but we had families and homes and Different Things we had to take care of too. Coming back to San Francisco being with my family i found myself in a different position and changing the career and it was recology. They gave me the opportunity of a lifetime to sustain my life and my family as well. With the benefits they had i have two new kids its been awesome. If it wasnt for recology i couldnt say where i would be right now. I wanted to share that with you and thank you for your time. Thank you. Hello. My name is jesus torres and i have been with recology for over a year. When i moved to San Francisco and i learned about recology and their ideology it immediately encouraged me to work for the company. After several times apply further position i landed a interview and at the time i got the opportunity to work for pier 96 recycle center. It was a satisfying feel and made me i reached a goal in life. Working for recology allows me to provide for my family and Retirement Plan and benefits makes me it to give it all for the next 30 years at a Great Company like recology. Thank you. Hit the mic. Hi. My name is joe jason and resident of indian basin and i probably live about 300yards from the facility and i live across the bay. I am neutral opinion about this but i wanted to share that there is a lot of audio issues, a lot of decibels so we can hear the forklifts and trucks and hear the train horn going quite a bit in regard to this facility and then with respect to transportation theres a lot of trucks going and out of the cargo way and associated area and they travel at a high speed. Obviously i dont know the exact speed but its a known issue stay away from the recology trucks when on the bicycle because they go very fast and an observation and i want to say am of neutral opinion here. Thank you. Thank you. Can i ask a question . Go ahead. So theyre bringing in a lot of trash. Do you ever have is there ever smell issues . We dont have smell issues but i live southeast of it so i dont know if that has anything to do with it. I guess the wind trafls north. I am just wondering. Just a lot of audio. I can hear the forklifts in the middle of the night. Thank you. Are you going to come up . Good afternoon commissioners. Eric smith with the San Francisco bay railroad. A hard act to follow the great speakers and great to see mr. Benson there. For those that have been at pier 96 and how flooded it gets its a golden opportunity and recology is a great neighbor and i am supportive of that. We only blow the horns when crossing intersections and required by law. I think this is a great opportunity and glad theyre vetting through the community and rail service will continue out there and plans to relocate the rail and i would be remiss if i didnt mention that and this is a great opportunity for the infrastructure out there and Everything Else going on and theyre very good company too so thank you. Is there anymore Public Comment on 11c . Seeing none. Public comment is now closed. Commissioner brandon. Brad and maurice thank you so much for this presentation. I think its wonderful and i would like to thank recology for being such a good tenant and hiring from the various communities and thank you very much for that. paused . We have west guard doing berthing along the stringer. We expect the uses to continue. I believe that maurice is already in touch with representatives of sill rad doe who is a marine demolition contractor that autopsies some of the space so we think that theres a way to make it all Work Together and to promote maritime activities through this lease. And so would this lease have any type of Maritime Component . So it depends on theres a couple of ways that silnever rado recology. As to recologys activities we think there maybe opportunities for rail. Cnd recycling produces metal that needs to be recycled so its a potential to have it on rail. We will continue to work with recology on whether or not their water transit opposites for other materials paused . And that revenue is in addition or combined with the total project. Thats in addition to what were getting. We have to look at the various site proves. Pier 96 improvements. Pier 96 seawall is 50 years old. There are holes in it. Port maintenance has to patch the holes. Its maybe the seawall needs to be replaced and this might be a strategy to accomplish that for funding so we have to look at whether you want to invest some of the 1. 7 million in improvements to the maritime terminal and those options will bring forward in later presentations to the commission but this is new rent. Okay. And then there was some mention in the report about rent credits. So there would be site improvements, new paving in the area, things that normally would be you know fit the Port Commissions policy for rent credits. Any Capital Improvements that are proposed for rent credits would be brought to you bless you any proposed Capital Improvements that are subject to rent credits are subject to the commissions approval like this. Would this facility be able to help with the existing piles that we have out there now . So commissioner brandon i believe youre talking about the sustainable crushing piles on the back lands and we know that recology is advertising this material actively right now. Weve got the potential that [inaudible] may need it for the wp sites. I think the warriors are also looking at this material. Port is planning to use some of the material as part of the back lands Improvement Project. I think our shared goal is get the piles down and really to examine whether or not to continue accepting that mixed asphalt and concrete material on the back lands because it doesnt appear to have a longterm market in San Francisco. After you do your outreach you will have concrete answers to the questions. Concrete answers. I love that. [laughter] and hopefully with the new facility the equipment will be more modern and it wont make as much noise for the neighbors. Yeah, and noish is an issue that is examined through the ceqa process. You know were aware that there are a lot of users out there and both residents in indian basin and the park and wildlife and we need to be aware about sound. Thank you. Thank you and can i reference the odor question that came up earlier . So theres not a vector problem at pier 96. Its handling mainly dry recycling materials and not a lot of food stream and the vector stream and i wanted to answer that. But i think theres an odor problem not that recology has it but i think some of the tenants have an odor problem [inaudible] were familiar with what youre talking about. [laughter] commissioner brandon asked so many Great Questions i think that im covered. I just would like to commend the recology staff for coming in and telling your stories. Its great to hear from all of you. Commissioner katz. Similar like commissioner brandon asked the questions that i have been pondering also. I was going to ask about the odor to explain that but i want to thank recology for being a great participant in the fabric of the city and a home grown company that gives back like the employ employees were talking about and i want to highlight the phenomenal participation of the employees in their charitable activity in the community. I dont think you find that many like that and goes toward the citys effort of zero waste and San Francisco has set the standard and been in no small part to the partnership with recology and working to reduce the waste in throughout the city so i just want to thank them and i am looking forward to seeing this project continue and frankly looking forward to seeing more people getting employed locally in San Francisco as the facility moves into the pier there. If and when it does it will bring in new workers and attrition occurs with the workers look to see more locals employed in those spots as they open up and thank you for the efforts and excited about the project. Brad i appreciate the presentation and thank the workers for recology also. Like commissioner kounalakis for sharing your story and anytime you have industrial i myself a union man and in the port there is smells and noise and thats the way it is. Going up and down the waterfront there is noise. Its lively and vibrant and thats the way it goes, but i am looking forward to you coming back and i really think that this could be a great opportunity and to employ people we just got talking about Affordable Housing. Now were talking about jobs and to be able to empower our community and stuff like that and thats what were supposed to be doing and i look forward to you coming back and how this will work and the Maritime Component eric mentioned about the rail and its important for us and the port to have a freight rail. I know right now that the governor his biggest thing is high speed rail but we need freight rail for the port and if can take trucks off the road and cut down on congestion by rail and more efficient and better for the community so thank you. Can i ask when do you plan on coming back . So i think we havent talked about it so im going to offer an off the top answer here which i think we need probably about a month for Community Outreach component. I think we might be able to be back in front of you at some point in april to talk about some of the next steps, the ena term sheets et cetera. Thank you. Madam secretary next item please. Item 12 a informational presentation regarding the request for proposals for restaurant opportunity at pier 33 north at bay street and embarcadero. Good afternoon commissioners. Jay edwards Senior Property manager and i am joined by sandra. She is the northeast waterfront property manager and share in the presentation with me and were here to talk to you about an informational item and its discussion about this upcoming request for proposals that were planning on issuing for pier 33 north, and im going to share with you a brief overview of the site, venue and location and business terms and sandra will take you through the business criteria and outreach and our schedule so this is an overview of the location and the site. This was occupied by the butterfly restaurant which had a good run of ten plus years and its been operating as a restaurant site for 30 continuous years so theres been a variety of other restaurants there and as you can see its a very good location between alcatraz, our cruise terminals and business parks across the street and residents in the area so were hoping to attract a wide variety of customers for this site, and we think its that its time for a refresh concept the butterfly was innovative when first opened but there is Competitive Pressure for restaurants so we had a mutual termination and now the space is vacant and ready to roll out a new request for proposal. Okay. Interesting so this is a sort of a [inaudible] [off mic] yeah, a rendering of a photo of the bulkhead building and the red awnings is where the former restaurant was located and has good identity along the embarcadero. It also has a high pedestrian Traffic Count and theres parking lot right across the street so now were looking inside the restaurant and if you look on the right you can see theres really great bay views out pier 35 and 33 on the other side, and then theres high ceilings. Its hope but has an intimate feeling and hoping to capitalize on that so the vision is casual, fun, affordable and appeal to a wide variety of customers and were proposing here is that the business terms, the key business terms would be ten year lease with possibly for option to extend depending on the Capital Improvements invested. The rent is greater of a base rent or percentage rent all based on fair market value and the Capital Investment would be sufficient to bring the property up to all the codes, any type of regulatory requirements and plus give it attractive and appealing look, a refreshment of the site if you will, and so with that go to the next slide there. We will move on to the selection criteria here. Our primary goal really is to identify and attract qualified experienced Restaurant Operators to this location. In addition the rfp is expected to identify numerous opportunities for lbe for permitting, design and construction and operations of the proposed restaurant so keeping all that in mind we developed the five primary selection criteria. First is the proposed concept. We are looking at overall appeal to prospective customers, the marketing plan, the plan for maximizing sales, attracting customers. Operating plan hours, how long theyre open and what days are they open . What is the menu going to look like . What is the pricing going to look like or the price point of the items . Design and Capital Investment. We will be looking at what their proposal is for the interior and exterior of the design, renderings floor plans and so so they submit the proposal. What is the initial amount they intend to put into the construction of the improvements . Experience and financial capacity. We want to see that proposers are experienced in running a full Service Restaurant for five of the last seven years at a minimum so were looking with somebody with experience running a full service sit down restaurant. We will also look ata source of funding for improvements, how much cash theyre investing and loan sources, that kind of thing. Well look at rent and Business Plan so the intent is to establish a minimum base rent and minimum percentage rent for this project but we also be looking at pro forma for operations whether the Ongoing Operations funds are coming from, projected revenues. Is the revenue stream going to support the operating expenses for the lawn haul . And we will look at local business participation. We want to look at see obviously we have a proposer lbe or partnered with one but were not requiring necessarily a specific lbe operator. We will be considering whether the proposer of the team submits and including professional services from lbe partners. That could be architects. Design construction that sort of thing as well as Operations Services that could be provided once the restaurant is open. I will talk about the outreach we have done to this point. We had a table at the Community Contract open house that was hosted by the port so commissioner brandon you were present at that. We had a table there. We actually had this fact sheet for this opportunity available. We had a lot of interest from the community particularly with respect to those support Services Designed construction, operations and so forth so were are encouraged by that. We had outreach and presentations made to Community Organizations for the past months and we will have a partnering session as part of our preproposal conference and outreach and give people again an opportunity to make connections and create partnerships with each other, and part of that will also be then during the meeting the site tour and so forth and people can make connections and proposers can solidify their team. Thank you sandy. So heres the tentative schedule were proposing to move forward on really to deliver this by the end of the year. Thats the goa. Theres a number of steps here outlined from front of and you back in front you have with the rfp in hand to get the approval to go out and interested receiving feedback and that concludes our presentation. Thank you. Thank you. Is there any Public Comment on 12a . Is there anybody have anything they would like to say on 12a . Seeing none Public Comment is closedded. Commissioner katz. Thank you of the i am excited to see something new and lively coming in there hopefully. Just a question on some of the criteria in terms of the i might have missed this the Capital Investment that you anticipate would be required there. Do we have a ballpark of what we think that would be . Weve looked at that. Were actually doing a facility assessment right now to see what that may be. Theres going to be pretty substantial investment in new equipment and also the aesthetic piece of it but we want to ascertain what are the code upgrade costs so at this present time we dont have a number specifically for you commissioner. And you said in terms of experience roughly five years, five year history . Yes minimum five years during the last seven of running a similar type of restaurant. Okay. Just in terms of sort of reaching how we do outreach to finding a little more diversity along the tenants along the waterfront its sort of a catch 22 but perhaps if we have the rfp worded in a way that allow a partnership that would enable or some scenario a partnership of more financial bablging that would bring in more dynamic restaurateur that might not have the requisite of five to seven Years Experience per se but meet the criteria and operated something smaller and step up and perhaps some flexibility in that. Absolutely we can. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Commissioner kounalakis. What is the square foot afnlg the site . Its approximately 4,000 square feet for the actual restaurant and there is potentially up to another 2500 square feet of support space that could be available. So this is the first kind of briefing of its kind since i have been on the commission and i am really curious how the process varies from say if you were leasing a restaurant space through an ordinary process, so for instance if it were privately owned piece of property then you could hire a Brokerage Firm and they would advertise it and it wouldnt necessarily be an rfp; right . You would just wait until the user came along that bid that submitted a bid that you thought was good and market rate and then you would move forward, so i guess what i am wondering is how from your point of view is this process different . And do you feel that it really gets out there, the advertising gets out there, so anyone looking right now for space in San Francisco to operate a restaurant knows this is an option . And number two, yeah what kind of both hurdles are there for a cheese cake factory or you know on the one side on the one extreme or a great little cafe that has opened up in a part of the city thats locally you know a mom and pop what kind of hurdles do they have . And just overall the anything i am missing here in terms what makes the leasing of this site to a restaurant different than an ordinary private sector process . And you dont have to talk too long because i know were going over and im the new one here. Thank you for your questions. Perhaps i can take maybe in reverse order if you dont mind . So the rfp process and the way were proposing it here gives us the qualitative approach and maybe a little bit of the private sector. Its more i think the private sector having been in the private sector and more quantitative and whats the rent . Whats the credit . Do we have an existing relationship and so forth . And in this case were using a qualitative approach and why we have the criteria that we set up and allow us to look at the operator, how theyre going to do it, what approach theyre going to take and a lot of details you wouldnt see perhaps in the private sector so it gives us a chance to really provide some sort of analysis and a panel too and a difference of a private sector and that perspective and outside perspective so in many ways it makes it we hope even though its more laborious for everyone here and including you and us. I think we do get a fully vetted process though and its a fair and transparent process and i think thats what the public wants. I believe so. In terms of the outreach its our committee to do the maximum outreach. We really are we have started that. Bob davis who is here with us. He can talk about a little bit if you like but we are trying to get this out to the public and thats why we wanted to be included in the community lb open house. We wanted this to be featured as an opportunity for the public, so with those efforts accommodation biened with the good combined with the overview and input from the panel we hope to get somebody special from the site and fit in with the port and we look at that on that basis and in the private sector you may look at this particular location you have we need to take a broader perspective so i think thats a long answer. Im sorry but hopefully that answered most of the questions. [inaudible] [off mic] from your perspective youre the leasing agent basically; right . I guess you could call me that. So do you feel this gets advertised widely across the city and beyond for people who are out there looking for restaurant sites in San Francisco . I think it does so between the outreach to a lot of the Community Organizations, the event that we held, interest lists that we have been developing and continue to develop you know it gets out in the community that this restaurant space is available and people start calling so the network in that industry is out there and were getting phone calls from people, and taking down information to let them when the rfp is actually released and available. Okay thanks. Commissioner brandon. Thank you so much for this presentation. This is a wonderful opportunity. Do you know why it seems like there have been multiple restaurants at this location . Do you know the challenges of this location . And why theres not a lot of success . We have thought about this and rob did a good job running the restaurant. He had success in its own way. I think that the challenge i see or that we see collectively is its busy there. Theres a lot going on so it can get kind of lost in the mix a lot bit. You have alcatraz and pedestrian traffic and potentially cruise dates that are happening all around it and its a little bit kind of midblock somewhat so its in a long stretch of a pier 29 bulkhead building. I think in terms of the also. You have to appeal to the mark that is there and im not sure its been done yet. I dont think the operators if you go back in history a lot of things have change the but if you look at the amount of people in the neighborhood that are going by daily. All of us weve gone by it a couple of times a week at least. I think if somebody can capitalize and provide a wide variety to meet kind of a broad diverse population i believe they will have some success but thats why were excited to see what we get and what happens. If i may jay one of the things you told me along with sandra that the Dining Experience is long dining and higher price point and staff is targeting a grab and go and lower price market and kacialg and on the go. So thats what were looking for, not fine dining but grab and go . Yes. So with the selection criteria say you have five proposals and they all have the minimum qualifications how will you differentiate between the proposals and select one . So thats a bit of art. Its going to be a panel basis. Were going to be really you know, getting the panel i think thats number one, getting a really good panel put together. Thats key. People that have experience with this, so its not just our thoughts outside groups that can really contribute and i think its one of those things im not sure we can describe it to you, but we know it if we saw it a little bit. But how would i know it . You will know it when you see it. I mean are you [inaudible] to each of the criteria or you know is it and then the local business participation. Where does that play into it . Yeah, we want it but you dont get anything extra for it. So its a point system and how you set up the points and theyre all i wouldnt call them heavily weighted on one side or the other. It has to be were looking for a balanced approach. We dont want to see too much of one or another and i know this is i am being im sorry, vague. Okay. But you will get a chance to see because we will have more categories put in there with points. When we come back with the rfp you will see more detail so its lacking in detail but we will provide it. Good work. I have a question and follow up on that question. Are you limited to a certain type of restaurant to me can they pay and i used to eat at butterflies, right and, have 4,000 square feet so should it be open to anybody that can come in and maybe transform that . Because we live in a 30 with 30 million tourists a year and people from the cruise ship or alcatraz and stiems its how you run a restaurant and not everybody is good and run it in different styles but maybe he had a good ten years . Thats a good run. Its like a stock. You might buy a stock and it might be good for a couple of years and then you have to dump the stock and get another stock. Its the way it is; right . In sports and you win and go through a period and dont win and get traded but i will say is it open to everybody and have you reached out to all over the city and maybe somebody has a specialty restaurant and they own three, four restaurants and not a big restaurant but a smaller restaurant and it can be nice; right . Like i like go to kak aris and is it hope to everybody . We want it open from the port staffs perspective want it open and diverse to everybody really. Thats wearing what were serving. Were serving a diverse population and the operator is key and looking for experience and a well run you can see it as you go out to restaurants as you do commissioner. You can see a well run experienced and bring in the components. We want that and encouraging that and want a team approach. Weaver back to commissioner brandons question and evaluating the team they put in front of us and going to start with the operator who is hopefully can rally this great team around him and with that we would then get something that maybe we havent seen or even thought about and yes the outreach component of it going to be really important and thats what were really going to focus on in the next phase is how do we get the word out . How do we promote this as a great opportunity . So were excited. You want a great professional coming in and not somebody struggling. Absolutely. You dont want somebody struggling and somebody that is well established and knows what theyre doing and knows how to win and run an efficient restaurant so we can have a great restaurant there. Thank you. Youre welcome. Madam secretary next item. Item 13 a and request for proposals for Program Management Engineering Consultant services to support the seawall resiliency project. Good evening commissioners, president adams, i love the hat. Executive director forbes. Im a stanford grad so be careful im a beers. Bears too. Equal opportunity. Were here too. Members of the public. I dont know i didnt am wearing red. Just happens. I am the project manager Engineering Division and we have staff here and the coordinator from finance administration will present this item. This is an action item to request Commission Approval to request request for proposals for engineering and Consultant Services to support the seawall resiliency project. This project supports the ports strategic goals of resiliency and leading the efforts to address threats from earthquake, flood risks and livability and increasing the funds spent by the port by engagement enterprises and knowledge of the Seawall Program and the relationship with the bay and stability by increasing innovative funding solutions. The seawall resiliency project is to improve earthquake safety and protection along the waterfront and the mission is have a program to repair the seawall and critical improvements by the end of 2025 and include advantaged age and deter action and earthquake and coastal flooding due to extreme storms and Sea Level Rise. Level of the bay increased 8 inches over 100 years and expected to raise 36 inches in the century. And the full cost for the seawall upgrades from pier 35 to Mission Creek is between two to 5 billion. 500 million is currently estimated for critical upgrades and the budget carrying forward subject to modification during development of the Overall Program. Current project fund suggest 9. 5 million. And were scheduled to go before voters for approval of 350 million in general Obligation Bond funding. We established phases and budgets and general timeline. Weve completed the initial studies to define earthquake and flood vulnerables and the goals of overall objectives and engage stakeholders develop alternatives and develop an Overall Program and complete preliminary design and engineering and Environmental Review on the critical improvements followed by final design and construction. The budgets here are total budgets and include port and city staff, consultants contracts and project contingencies. To complete this project we will need resources and expertise beyond port and city staff. The strategy we developed includes the opportunities. The Program Manager and Engineering Consultant, this is the subject of todays request. They will provide Planning Engineering design and Environmental Services to develop the overall Seawall Program and complete design and Environmental Review for the improvements. This Contract Value is up to 40 million with a term of ten years. Communications consultant. This contract will provide Marketing Strategic Communications and Public Outreach for the project through planning and design phases. The rfp is advertised currently. Final design one or more contracts for final design of the improvements. One or more Construction Contracts will done for the improvements and may contain any of these issues and contracts and Construction Management support. We anticipate Construction Support Services will be required to assist port and city Construction Management groups. Program management and Engineering Consultant contract is vital to moving the project forward. The primary scope includes planning and Program Development, Environmental Review, preliminary design and initialing, management assistance and review of final design and construction by others, essential skills and expertise of this include infrastructure planning, Program Development and management, coastal engineering, structural and geotechnical engineering, earthquake engineering and seismology, Environmental Assessment and permitting, waterfront urban design including historic preservation. I would like to invite boris up to go over details of the rfp. Good afternoon commissioners im the ports contract coordinator and joined the Contract Monitoring Division Compliance Officer thats assigned to the port. In terms of a schedule our goal is to commence the advertisement and so lisment in late march and two weeks later we will hold a presubmittal meeting at the office. Proposals are due in late april. We anticipate reviewing the proposals and selecting a winner by the end of may and returning to you for contract award in june. The resulting contract is a solicitation of over 10 million which requires a board of supervisors approval. Our goal would be go to the board in july and then commence this contract notice to proceed in august. The Contract Monitoring Division set a 15 lbe subcontracting goal for this project. The potential roles include geotechnical engineering, structural engineering, civil initialing and cost estimating, environment services, testing and inspection services. There are a number of contracts as steven mentioned that are resulting from the seawall resilience project and the first was issued last week and the communications contract. It has an not to exceed amount of 1. 7 million and subcontracting goal. The bulk of the subcontracting dollars allocated from the seawall project will come from the final design and construction work. Based on similar projects that we have researched we anticipate that goal to be about 20 that lbe subcontracting goal. Working with cmd to set goal for this project we looked at similar programs citywide. The closest in size and scope were programs that were issued through the Public Utilities commission. We looked at the sewer system Improvement Project and the water system Improvement Project and similar large scale multiyear contracts. Ssip had a 10 lbe goal and the wsip to hetch hetchy and goal of 13 so we will work to go higher than 15 on this specific contract but we will also be able to increase the Overall Program goal with the final design and Construction Contracts which at this point were estimate to be about 20 . In terms of the Selection Process similar to the last presentation we will appoint a evaluation panel. The Selection Panel will be made up of at minimum of two port employees and two non port employees. The panel will have expertise and knowledge in the area and the objectives. Once the proposals are submitted we have an internal group to review the minimum qualifications and determine whether they have met all of the formatting requirements, the lbe requirements and whether the proposals are responsive and responsible to the rfp. After that happens we convene the panel. The scoring criteria will include the experience of the firm, their knowledge of the port, the experience of the project team, the work approach, how they will how they will preach each of the disciplines, how they work with port staff. We will score references. Written proposals are worth 100 points and we will invite the top four highest ranked firms to return for oral interviews. The interviews will have a similar break down and worth 100 points. We will the final score, the highest ranked will have the highest combined scores and do that with the highest rank prop poser and return to you for award of the contract. In terms of outreach we formally initiated the rfp process on march 1 with our contracts opportunities open house. Over 200 individuals attended that event and very successful. This initiative and rfp was the trigger for that event. We featured it prominently. Once we issue the rfp we will also post it on the website. The Contract Office of Contract Administration website. I have attended meetings. Ive gone to the africanamerican chamber of commerce to promote this opportunity. We will go to other chambers and outreach to lbes and presubmittal meeting in april which will another networking opportunity for prime and subcontractors. At this point we feel good about the outreach, the word is out. I think theres a lot of contractors standing behind me now and they know this is coming and theres a lot of interest in working with the port and on this initiative. In conclusion we respectfully request your authorization to issue the rfp and steven and i are here to answer any questions that you have. So moved. Second. Is there any Public Comment on 13a . Is there any Public Comment on 13a . Seeing none. Public comment is now closed. Commissioner brandon. Thank you so much for this report. You guys did such a thorough job that joaf any questions. Thank you. [laughter] really . Really. Commissioner kounalakis. All right. I have a couple. I am trying to remember from the last time we talked about the seawall. It seemed to me it was still unclear what the best solution was going to be in terms of repairing, rebuilding where . So it seems to me that i mean i dont know but it seems to me you have the estimated cost of the conceptual level between 2 billion to 5 billion for full replacement or critical upgrades of 500 million and the scope to be determined but then schedule and budget it looks as though you decided were going for critical upgrades and the question is that correct . That what i am reading . Thats correct. Between the last time we had a presentation on this and now how did we come to that conclusion . The initial vulnerability study, the earthquake vulnerability study and the flood protection study completed previously weve identified a zone around the Ferry Building that appears to be have both seismic risk, has initial flood risks today and a lot of our critical facilities so we honed in in on that to set up the initial budget. However, its important to note that we have not done the extensive Stakeholder Engagement and Program Development thats needed to really finalize a first package. You know were definitely focused on life safety improvements, Critical Infrastructure improvements that need to be functional post earthquake for the City Disaster Response functions, and there maybe other criteria that comes out as we get Program Development phase. For example the constructivity of some of the how much impact they do . If theyre spread out in different areas do we want to attack different areas with an initial project . We may find out that the five human million 500 million are not enough and search for out additional funding and we have to start now and with what we know now this is the best weve got. Okay. Because its a fairly big leap to make that determination and also to identify further that were not looking at rebuilding the seawall. Were looking at fixing the seawall in the critical area around the Ferry Building. Not necessarily. We have to go through the planning process to determine what that project is going to be, those critical improvements. We have ideas now but theyre very much internal ideas. Theyre not and they need to be informed with extensive engagement and a thorough process of additional engineering study, alternative analysis, and alternatives refinement. Right planning phase. Because initialing consultants who Engineering Consultants and how to do critical repairs but not draw the lens back on the bigger question which is the vulnerable itd of San Francisco from flooding or earthquake, what did venice do kind of level of analysis . So are you looking at i mean there are different consulting firms. Some could figure out how to fix what is there and others that take the wholesale innovative look and what do you do about this problem. So will you be targeting firms that have that ability to look at this complex problem from multiple angles . Yes, the latter, definitely the latter. We need to look at it from all the angles. And i can add extra content here so this is considered the planning phase of the project and while engineering is a big part of the contract planning and design will be a big part as well so we will be looking to set a conceptual framework how to respond to Sea Level Rise along our seawall, our vulnerable seawall looking to we have earthquake risk and current risk and Sea Level Rise which is emerging threat and look to what areas we should make secure first and but we will be in this planning phase developing a framework to tackle the entire seawall. Thats what was my understanding so thats why i was surprised by this leap from replacing the seawall to critical upgrades and it was decided but it sounds like its in part decided by the money, so we are on the bond schedule for 350 million in 2018. Were looking for 500 million for the First Investments and critical improvements that relate to San Francisco Emergency Response et cetera that should be addressed first and tackling the repair of the seawall now is not realistic from either a funding standpoint or a project delivery standpoint so we have a staff recommended that we start with critical repairs first and eventually tackle the larger seawall fix or replacement. Okay. Thank you. Commissioner katz. Thank you steven and boris, very thorough. I just had a couple of questions given its going to be broken out in terms of the large share going to the preliminary design environmental work. Is there anything that would preclude any of the or successful bidder on phase from being involved in the subsequent final design and construction phases . So the Program Manager will be on board through final design playing a review role and assisting us, so they would not be able to compete for final design work. Okay. And then just confirming this isnt going to be necessarily a lowest bidder but the whole monopoly of services and as ranked it will be somewhat based on a range of responses as opposed to purely fiscal . Yeah, theyre ranged purely on qualifications and so negotiate with the highly qualified firm to come to an acceptable value and scope. If we cannot do that and we will give ourselves a time limit for that and if not we stop negotiations and move firm two. Got it. Just confirming and thank you very much and for all the outreach done to the community and really and this is a significant project on so many levels and i think really having gone above and beyond in terms of outreach to ensure that we get a broad Cross Section of people aware of what were doing is great so thank you. Boris and Steven Steven i think you guys are both geniuses but i know you had a chance to go to amsterdam to do studies about Sea Level Rise and stuff like that and what was happening over there and in october director forbes and commissioner brandon we were in dropped and talking to leader pelosi and her direct and talking to the army corps of engineers and getting money from them. I am with you. I want to do something because and really go for it because if something happens and were not prepared where it might be 2 billion to fix it and like new orleans and not prepared to fix it and then its eight, 10 billion and where we will come up with the money . I would like to get ahead of that and i was in sack ac and the transportation bill and david chiu is up there and assembly member, scott wiener and we need to ask them you guys need to get money for San Francisco and its out there and get on top of this and dc and meet with secretary chow and make you come to San Francisco and see what were up against. We can do this the easy or hard way. We pay now and up front and look like heroes and if not if something happened and here and come up with the money and i know its a priority for the port and elaine when youre back there and the business people, the chamber need to be knocking on the doors in dc and republicans and democrats and we need to be up front on the issue and need money for San Francisco and need close to 2 billion and we want to fix the whole thing. And i will go back would you work on it from the inside or from the water side in and from the inside its down the embarcadero and people doing business; right . And we want to hurt them doing business and this is our city of tourism and can you work on the water side. Did i say that right . You did. Right now there are very high level concepts how to improve seismic safety on the waterfront. The deal with ground improvement land side highly disruptive to businesses and to the embarcadero and so we also looked at the water side construction technique. We would go out into the bay, do your construction out there and buttress the existing wall and let life on the waterfront exist while this is going on water side. That is controversial because it includes bay fill. The Environmental Review and approval process would potentially take much longer but it may actually be a less cost alternative so its a valid alternative and in this planning phase we need to look at all alternatives. We need to get everything on the table and then develop those, rank them, refine them, start to whittle that down and thats the intent of this planning phase. Our goal is to be complete with the planning phase by 2018 so we have a good idea what works along the waterfront. Have you guys had any discussions with the army corps of engineers and have they said anything . We sure have and were working on the final strategy with them. There are pitfalls but right now we actually next Commission Meeting were bringing to youa i feasibility cost sharing agreement with the army corps of engineers for a project and continuing Authorities Program and federal interest of 5 million and its looking at a portion of the waterfront for flood protection improvements south of the Ferry Building. Thats our start with the corps. We think that can pivot to a larger general investigation project and so we do have our foot in the door with them under the cavstudy. They determined federal interest for us and ready to kick off the Feasibility Study in partnership with us and our goal is turn into a general investigation. Huge project. Yeah. Its huge. Its exciting, right, but its historic as well. And of course theres lots of changes with regulation you know. Who knows whether or not there is staff at the army corps. Who knows if there is massive deregulation. Who knows if there is an epa tomorrow. All of these difficult to predict scenarios but i think its just were in such a fortunate situation that the mayor is prioritizing it and up to us to talk to the public and fix it quickly and the best solution at the best price and stanford okay and maybe berkeley would have been better but its really a huge challenge and opportunity. Its a huge challenge. The dual threat, the earthquake threat which is at the door step any day and the Sea Level Rise threat which is emerging and trying to balance those, what actions we can take now, its going be extremely difficult to hone in on the project that supports both. I support you being very proactive. Thank you everybody for going out on this and doing what we have to do. Okay colleagues since there is no more discussion. All in favor of resolution 1714 . Aye. Opposed . Pass unanimously. Madam secretary next item please. Informational presentation on the ports report on contracting activity for first and second quarters of fiscal year 201617. Good afternoon. I am the administrator with staff from the Contract Monitoring Division. The matter before you is an informational overview of the ports contract activity. For the first two quarters of fiscal year 201617 thats the period that covers july 1 to december 31 and follow up to the report september stwefn. I will talk about the ordinance. I will go quickly. I know you had a long meeting tonight and talk about lbe certification and the firms and contracts awarded and payments made on open contracts. I will talk about local hire and upcoming opportunities. The local Business Enterprise program was designed to level the Playing Field for businesses bidding on contracts. It affords bid districts and subcontracting goals for certified lbes. There are 1197lbes and increase of 30 since the last time i came here. I had a conversation at length tw the certification manager. They have made changes and growth in firms for the first time in a few years and over the last five months theres been a study increase and so i think in the next report we will see even larger increase in lbe firms so i think thats a positive note. They also made Administrative Changes and the time to become certified has gone from 60 days to 45 days and 25 increase in the certification process. The break down of firms is 23 women owned and 40 other Business Enterprises and 37 minority owned firms with 45 of minority firms as Asian American, africanamerican firms make up 25 of the currently certified lbe and Latino American firms are 23 . In terms of our contracts awarded during this period for the First Six Months of the fiscal year we awarded 9. 2 million in contracts through six new contracts. Five of the six contracts went to lbe firms as prime contractors. Thats 83 of the contracts awarded at the prime level. The bulk of the contract dollars that we awarded during the period came from two specific contracts and the Mission Bay Ferry Landing and the crane cove park Site Preparation contract. Those combined were responsible for 92 of the contracts we did award. The remaining contracts however we issued as micro lbe set aside and as Small Contracts put out to bid for only lbes and oarve all we were able to award 41 of all dollars to lbe firms. Heres another look at the prime contracts we awarded again six valued at 9. 2 million and five went to minority owned businesses. Of those five contracts three went to Asian American owned firms and two went to africanamerican owned lbe businesses. Whereas the last slide showed the number of prime contracts awarded this represents the contract dollars. As from the pie chart on the left the performance was 41 and o bes 4 of dollars. Women owned firms 12 of awards and majority owned businesses won 25 of the contract awards. Those dollars can be further broken down by ethnicity. The chart on the right shows 82 of dollars in the mbe minority enterprise slice went to Asian American firms and the 13 split between africanamerican and latino owned firms. As i mentioned before these charts were dominated by two contracts. 92 or 8. 5 million of the dollars awarded came through the construction at crane cove park and for the Mission Bay Ferry Landing. The lesson here we need to come up with diverse ways to increase our dollars awarded to lbe firms and encourage diversity at the subcontractor level. We have been on message at the contract open house with the contractors when we have presubmittal meetings this is something we want to see when you do business with the port. In terms of payments we issued 6. 2 million in payments during the reporting period. 31 of those went to lbes. Overall we are our professional service and Construction Contracts are meeting or exceeding the average
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